Phytoplankton Ecology Structure, Function and Fluctuation - Harris, Graham P.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1986)
1 Preamble -- 1.1 A brief introduction to the organisms -- 2 Ecological theory -- 2.1 An historical perspective: the concept of plenitude -- 2.2 Ecology and evolution -- 2.3 Equilibrium theory -- 2.4 The equilibrium theory of community structure -- 2.5 Criticisms of equilibrium theory -- 2.6 Non-equilibrium theory -- 2.7 Some ideas from non-equilibrium thermodynamics -- 3 Some basic physics -- 3.1 Scales of turbulent kinetic energy generation -- 3.2 The physics of surface waters -- 4 The chemical environment -- 4.1 The Redfield ratio -- 4.2 The major ions -- 4.3 The major nutrients -- 5 Defining the scales of interest -- 5.1 Patchiness in space and time -- 5.1.1 Vertical mixing and sedimentation -- 5.1.2 Horizontal mixing -- 5.1.3 Spectra of turbulent kinetic energy -- 5.1.4 Spectra of chemical fluctuations -- 5.2 The biological response to variability in space and time -- 5.2.1 Physiological scales -- 5.2.2 The scales of growth rates -- 5.3 Models of competition between phytoplankton -- 6 The measurement of productivity and growth rates -- 6.1 The interpretation of kinetic measurements -- 6.2 The integration of metabolic pathways -- Time scales and the effects of bottle containment -- From kinetics to growth rates? -- 7 The concept of limiting nutrients -- 7.1 Rate processes in oligotrophic waters -- 7.2 The cycling of N and P in lakes and the oceans -- 7.3 Nutrient cycling, elemental ratios and the 'Redfield ratio' -- 7.4 Patterns in temporal fluctuations -- 7.5 Whole basin averages -- 8 Physiological scales: non-steady state conditions in the field -- 8.1 The effects of environmental variability on growth rates -- 8.1.1 Diversification between species -- 8.2 Energy, nutrients and cell size: a synthesis -- 9 Seasonal patterns of distribution and abundance -- 9.1 Spatial distribution of biomass -- 9.2 The seasonal cycle of phytoplankton growth -- 9.3 Manipulation of the seasonal cycle of biomass -- 9.4 The influence of mixed layer physics on biomass distributions -- 9.5 Ecological succession -- 9.6 The seasonal succession and community structure of phytoplankton -- 9.7 Sampling and counting problems: time and space scales -- 9.8 The seasonal successions of species: the ideal sequences -- 9.9 Nutrient ratios and the role of competition -- 10 Community structure and function in turbulent environments -- 10.1 Processes in phytoplankton successions -- 10.2 Structural trends in succession -- 10.3 Rates of succession -- 10.4 Succession in turbulent mixed layers -- 10.5 Manipulation of the species composition -- 10.6 Biomanipulation -- 11 Large number systems: empiricism -- 11.1 Observations of ecological diversity -- 11.2 Predictions of the distribution and occurrence of species -- 11.3 Phosphorus loadings and algal biomass -- 11.4 Manipulation of algal biomass -- 11.5 Phosphorus loadings and hypolimnial anoxia -- 11.6 Phosphorus loadings and the biomass of other organisms in the food chain -- 11.7 Size distributions in food chains -- 11.8 Phytoplankton biomass and fish production -- 12 Interannual variability -- 12.1 Long-term changes in phytoplankton abundance -- References.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Aquatic ecology .; Plant Sciences; Freshwater & Marine Ecology